Category Archives: Aéronautique

Formerly a major exporter of oil and gas, Norway has positioned itself as the champion of electric means of transport. With 16% of vehicles sold in 2016, Norway is the most advanced country in its transition to electric vehicles, and

Nasa is thinking about embarking artificial intelligence and a blockchain in its future space probes. This is the purpose of the RNCP research program (resilient networking and computing paradigm) which aims to develop the software platform that will equip the

Boeing was not on the ESC this week, but the aeronautical giant has just unveiled a rather ambitious cargo drone project. HorizonX, its innovation cell, has designed in just a few months and completed the first flights of the Boeing

iSpace Technologies signs the last publicity coup of the year with its announcement to transform the moon into a billboard. The idea sounds crazy, but it allowed the Japanese to raise $90 million. Founded by Takeshi Hakamada, this startup is

While reports of drones near airports are increasing in the United States and Europe, for the moment every drone impact on an airliner has resulted in a little crumpled sheet metal. Airliners have been designed to withstand bird strikes much

Saint-Gobain chose its production plant in Sully-sur-Loire to deploy collaborative robots among its workers. Robots will help them in a particularly difficult task: polishing special glass. A new illustration of the arrival of industrial 4.0 concepts in a company more

The ScanPyramids project made headlines a few weeks ago, with the announcement of the discovery of a large cavity in the Kheops pyramid by the ScanPyramids team. The CEA’s archaeologists and scientists used muon detectors, particles from cosmic radiation, which

Aerion Corporation has just announced that it has signed a partnership with Lockheed Martin to develop its supersonic AS2 business jet. The American defense giant takes over from Airbus at the side of the startup to help him develop a

The challenge is up! High-flying engineers, mad inventors and daredevils are on the starting line to win the GoFly Prize. This challenge, essentially financed by Boeing, promises Jetpack’s top designers $2 million. The participants have two years to design the

After chess, the Jeopardy, the Go game, researchers are now interested in a new sport, the FPV Racing, i. e. the drones race. Researchers at the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in Pasadena, a NASA laboratory, have unveiled the results of